The Wire

China is getting plenty of attention this week and it seems much of the energy at APEC is being spent wooing the emerging economic giant. Journalist John Pomfret knows a much darker side of China than the friendly modern one it’s showing the world at the moment. He lived and studied there for many years and was working as a journalist at time of the Tienanmen Square massacre – his new book “Chinese Lessons” tells the stories of several of his Chinese friends – in each case they’ve had to forget their own tragic stories of families murdered or disgraced during China’s Cultural Revolution in the 60s … one of those was John’s classmate Old Wu.